Crafting Focus

Some zones allow a resource return rate (RRR) when crafting. For example, crafting in a town will result in a resource return rate of 15%. If you were to use 100 cotton to craft 100 linen, then you would receive a refund of 15 cotton. This gives you a slight advantage when crafting and if you purchase resources from other players, this also gives you a subtle economic advantage that can pay off well in the long run. The bonus received depends on the zone you are crafting in and generally speaking, the more dangerous the zone, the greater the return.

Crafting at the black zone gives 44% resource return rate with focus.

Crafting with Crafting Focus enabled increases the resource return rate. Crafting Focus will max out at 30,000 points and regenerates over time, even when you are logged out. The Crafting Focus regeneration requires a premium account allowing for a gain of 10,000 focus per day.

Refining and Crafting Bonuses: Bonuses will apply to materials refined and items crafted in the Royal cities. Here are the items that will be affected in each city:

City	Refining	Crafting
		Weapons	Armors
Martlock (Highland)	Hide	Axe, Quarterstaff, Frost Staff, Offhand	Plate Boots
Bridgewatch (Steppe)	Rock	Crossbow, Dagger, Cursed Staff	Plate Armor, Cloth Sandals
Lymhurst (Forest)	Fiber	Sword, Bow, Arcane Staff	Leather Hood, Leather Shoes
Fort Sterling (Mountain)	Wood	Hammer, Spear, Holy Staff	Cloth Robe, Plate Helmet
Thetford (Swamp)	Ore	Mace, Nature Staff, Fire Staff	Leather Jacket, Cloth Cowl

The tables below illustrates the default resource return rate before enabling crafting focus and with focus enabled.

Refining:

Location	RRR	With Focus
Base Island	0	39%
Base City + Caerleon	15%	44%
Royal City With Bonus	35%	50%
Black Zone Territory	20%	46%
Royal Island With Bonus	20%	46%

Crafting:

Location	RRR	With Focus
Base Island	0	39%
Base City + Caerleon	15%	44%
Royal City With Bonus	25%	48%
Black Zone Territory	25%	48%
Royal Island With Bonus	13%	43%

Focus cost efficiency

Crafting focus costs can be reduced by attaining a higher mastery level to the required skill. The crafting focus cost is halved for each 10,000 focus cost efficiency points.^source. With all of the relevant masteries maxed the focus cost is reduced all the way to 12.5% of the base focus cost.

Base Focus Cost of Refining

Tier	Common	Uncommon	Rare	Exceptional
T2	10	N/A	N/A	N/A
T3	24	N/A	N/A	N/A
T4	48	89	143	239
T5	89	160	269	461
T6	160	284	487	844
T7	284	500	866	1,508
T8	500	877	1,527	2,666